PERSPECTA

News from every angle

Results for “Johor

31 stories found

Cross-border trips to Johor push Singapore checkpoint traffic to record high in 2025
BusinessSCMP10d ago

Cross-border trips to Johor push Singapore checkpoint traffic to record high in 2025

Nearly every Sunday, consultant Toh Jia Jie and his wife leave their new flat in Singapore and drive north across the border to Johor for a day of cheaper shopping, pickleball and massages before returning past midnight on Monday morning. Toh, 30, is among the close to 245 million travellers who passed through Singapore’s checkpoints last year, a record high. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Monday that figure represented a 6.3 per cent increase – about 14 million more...

Malaysia’s vape ban plan leaves 1.4 million users in regulatory limbo
HealthSCMP12d ago

Malaysia’s vape ban plan leaves 1.4 million users in regulatory limbo

The vapes used to be obvious. Bright displays of flavoured liquid, a shop just down the road, a transaction as unremarkable as buying shampoo. Batrisyia, 28, remembers how easy it was. Those days are gone. Or rather, in Malaysia at least, the trade has moved under the table. “It’s definitely less open now,” said Batrisyia, a Johor native who asked to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of backlash. “You don’t see big vape displays like before, and we can’t buy online any more. But it hasn’t...